From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 8 06:37:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56FF216A4CE; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 06:37:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.russia.cz (mail.russia.cz [195.70.151.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B00D143D31; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 06:37:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sobomax@portaone.com) Received: from portaone.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by www.russia.cz (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i586bII6043442; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 08:37:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sobomax@portaone.com) Message-ID: <40C55E8F.1070203@portaone.com> Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 09:37:03 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ru, uk MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Paul References: <20040607162854.3CED016A4D0@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20040607162854.3CED016A4D0@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Alexander Leidinger cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Project Evil & ACX100-based cards (D-Link DWL-520+) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 06:37:27 -0000 Bill Paul wrote: >>On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 04:59:38 +0300 >>Maxim Sobolev wrote: >> >> >>>Hi Bill, >>> >>>I'm trying to make my D-Link DWL-520+ card working with if_ndis, but no >>>luck yet. The card is correctly detected, driver attaches to it. If I >>>configure it in the adhoc mode it is seen from the nearby machine and >>>connected to, but traffic doesn't flow. :-( >>> >>>Any ideas? Please let me know if more information is necessary. >> >>Have you tried the FreeBSD native KLD (wlan.kewl.org)? I've installed it >>on my brother's system and on a system of a friend. Both don't complain, >>so I assume it works for them (you may perhaps need to do a "ifconfig >>acx0 down; sleep 5; ifconfig acx0 up" after booting, but then it should >>negotiate with an AP). > > > I can probably get this card to work, but as I told Maxim directly, I > refuse to do debugging via e-mail. (I'm sorry, but it's just too goddamn > frustrating: what could take me an hour or two to fix on my own can take > weeks when I have to give a crash course in network debugging to someone > half a planet away.) Would it help if I'll provide you with root shell and serial console access to a well-connected machine with this card and another machine with wi(4) chip? -Maxim